Genevieve, a poet, and Sean, a bartender, wrote this literary affair between classic cocktails and love poems-an adventure into the romance and libertine spirit of classic cocktails, including fabulous recipes from the 1920's with modern variations. Hemingway's advice to -write drunk and edit sober- describes their creative process as poems were written under the spirit of each drink.

The cocktails provide the metaphors for a poetic love story, giving the history, secrets, and mystique of each drink. What started as a single poem, using the martini as a metaphor for love and life,...